Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-10
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
If an overheated pig be exposed to the
cold it will cool too suddenly and be like
ly to have turn of congestion in some
vital part.
In farming, as in other things, nothing
risked means nothing won; but the risks
should be taken with both courage and
judgment.
It pays to keep chickens in town.
Build small house and yard. Put In
dozen good fowls, and they will amply
repay you for the care and feed.
Affection can not be pounded into ami
mails. Kind treatment insures the affec-
tion OF an animal, while rough treatment
is sure to cause it's hatred.
When you wash young trees use cloth.
On old ones stiff scrub brush is better,
as it will dislodge insects that have tax
en- up quarters beneath the scales of
bark.
Wood lands are usually tho5e which are
most benefited by the apph cation of
wood ashes; hence the latter should al
ways be utilized and not allowed to lie
around the yard in unsightly heaps.
The late sweet corn should be dried for
winter use. If preferred, however, it
may be cooked and sealed in glass air
tight jars. Lima beans will also keep IN
a green condition if treated in the same
manner.
Cement floors are not rat-proof unless
pounded glass be mixed with the cement
before the laying of the floor. The or
binary glass Stag from the factories is
excellent for the purpose, and will cost
but little, az it is usually thrown away as
refuse.
Suppose the owner of herd of COM
mon COWS should see what he could do by
giving his COWS just as good care as the
Holste1n or Jersey get. He must not ex-
pect TO equal them, but he will probably
be surprised, If such treatment be new to
his management, with the result.
The cost of a pound of pork is about
Scr, while pound of chicken costs about
&c. bud the prices obtained for the chick
en- are so much greater that the profit is
nearly twice as much as that on pork,
which may be put down to the fact that
the chicken is also producer of eggs as
well as flesh.
Young grape vines may be placed in
their proper location now. Cut them
back until only single cane will be left.
Allow as many roots as possible, and
mulch around the vine if the climate be
severe in winter. A plentiful supply of
ground bone should be placed around the
roots Of the vine when planted.
It is much better when blowing the
ground late in the fall to leave the ridges
in the rough condition instead of harrow
ing, as the frost will exert more com plete
disintegration of the clods. BY late
blowing, especially after frost, the cut
worms will be destroyed and the land
more easily oross-plowed the following
spring.
A covering of fine, well-rotted manure
placed over the strawberry rows will serve
as mulch and protect the young plants.
In the spring the soluble matter will be
appropriated by the growing plants as
soon as the season shall begin to open,
thus causing them to push forward rap
idly. Spring work of manuring them
will also be saved.
Compelling the cattle and sheep to
pick over and consume the dry food
from corn stalks is proper enough so far
as it goes, and Is econo m1cal, tut If they
be required to subsist Oh such food alone
the method will prove extravaganza. ANY
kind of coarse material may be fed if
grain food be also given TO compensate
AOI 0ndo WElCu may % lacking III the
bulky food. All kinds Of food can be
economically used if correctly proper
toned In nutrition.
FRIED CREAM.
Make smooth paste with three table
spoonfuls of rice, -four or corn starch and
part of pint of milk; then gradually
add the rest of the pint, two whole eggs
and the yolks of four eggs, with a pat
of very fresh butter, powdered white
sugar TO taste, and few drops of essence
of almond. Put the mixture into e
saucepan on the fire and never cease stir
ring until it is quite thick. Spread it out
on slab to the thickness of half an inch
When quite cold, cut it out in lozenges;
egg and crum them; fry them nice color
In lard, and serve with powdered sugar
over them.
NEW WAY TO COOK CRANBERaIEs.
Sort aud wash the berries. Put them
on the fire in cold water. As soon as
they are scalding hot take them off and
drain them in sieve. Thus they lose
much Of their acrid taste, but not their
flavor. The berries must not be left in
the sieve minute, for fear of losing
their Juice. Turn them into pan. A3d
sugar In proportion of L pound to four
quarts OF fruit. Put in the berries and
boil them soft, bot not to a mash. Cover
win napkin white cooling, and stir
them gently OCCASIONALLY. Small bowls
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